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36. A Safe Place
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Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss 36. A Safe Place
Avery’s POVI couldn’t concentrate at work. Every time I looked up from my computer screen, Debby’s smug face flashed through my mind, her voice replaying that awful ultimatum—twenty-four hours, or she’d blow everything up.It felt like my world was on a time bomb.I tapped my pen against the desk, my thoughts drifting back to Hector and the way he’d ripped up the divorce papers like they were trash. If Debby went ahead and spilled what she saw, Hector could use it against me. He could twist everything to make it seem like I was the unfaithful one. The irony wasn’t lost on me—he cheated, he lied, but a single kiss with Caspian could suddenly become ammunition in court.And Debby knew that.She didn’t care about me or what I was going through. To her, this was an opportunity to cash out, to line her pockets with my silence.I stared at my phone, hesitating for a moment before pressing Caspian’s contact. My fingers trembled slightly, not because I was scared of him, but because I knew h
Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss 35. Her Price for Silence
Avery’s POV I didn’t want to go.I didn’t want to see her face, sit across from her fake-smiling lips, or listen to whatever disgusting offer she was about to throw on the table. But I had no choice. Not when she held a ticking bomb over my head, ready to blow up everything I had just started to rebuild.When Debby waved me over to the small restaurant across the street from the office, I followed stiffly, feeling like a prisoner walking toward her own execution.The moment we sat down, she skipped all formalities."I’m not going to waste your time, Avery," she said, leaning forward with that smirk I was beginning to hate with my entire soul. "You know what I saw. I know what I saw. And I’m guessing you know what it would mean if someone else saw it too. Most especially your dear loving husband, Hector."I clenched my jaw. "You said this wasn’t about ruining lives, just business. So say what you want to say and get it over with."Debby chuckled like I amused her. "Right. Business. Le
Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss 34. Dangerous Distractions
Caspian’s POVI’d never been the type to look forward to going into the office. Work was work—something I had mastered, something that kept my revenge plan moving, something I controlled with precision. But today… today felt different.I checked my reflection in the mirror again, straightening my already perfect tie. My hair was in place, my cologne subtle but sharp. Everything looked normal on the outside, but inside?My chest buzzed with anticipation.I knew exactly why.The very thought of Avery waiting somewhere in the building, her soft green eyes, the way she bit her lip when she was thinking, the way her voice lowered just a little when she was talking to me alone—it drove me absolutely mad.I wasn’t even trying to fight it anymore. I had fallen. Deep.And now, all I wanted was to see her again. Not in the way I saw most people. I wanted to study her—every look, every movement, every reaction. I wanted to soak her in like she was the only source of light left in my dark, reven
Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss 33. Unspoken Storms
Avery’s POVThe soft clinking of glasses and the low hum of music filled the dimly lit bar. It was early evening, and the place wasn’t too crowded—just the way I liked it. The amber lighting wrapped around the space like a quiet embrace, but nothing could still the restlessness inside me.I wrapped my fingers around the rim of my untouched drink, stirring the melting ice with the straw. I had texted Desmond a few hours ago, needing to talk to someone who wasn’t tangled in the drama of my life—someone who didn’t want anything from me.Desmond walked in just as I was about to check my phone again. He wore his usual dark jeans and a black T-shirt, his brown hair a little messy like he’d run his fingers through it too many times. When his eyes found mine, he gave a half-smile and made his way over.“Avery,” he said, sliding into the booth across from me. “You know how I have this weird habit of reading a tone into a text, right?”“Yeah, and?”“Your text sounded like you have been so worri
Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss 32. Midnight Confessions
Avery's POVI thought handing Hector the divorce papers would be the end of something—the final nail in the coffin of a toxic, broken marriage.But I was wrong.He didn’t even read them. He tore them in half right in front of me. No hesitation. No emotion. Just a sharp rip that echoed in the silence like a gunshot.And then he walked away, leaving the pieces fluttering to the floor, and me standing there stunned—humiliated all over again.That night, I couldn’t sleep.I tossed and turned, my mind spinning, heart aching. The image of those torn pages haunted me. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw his smug face, heard the sound of paper ripping, felt the heavy weight of powerlessness settle over me like a shroud.He had the upper hand again.Legally, emotionally, symbolically—he was still trying to own me.I stared at the ceiling, my thoughts bouncing like angry wasps in my head. My room felt suffocating. Juliet was probably in her room, already spinning this into another power play. An
Tangled Hearts: In Love With My Ex Husband's Boss 31. The Man I'm Becoming
Caspian's POV I couldn't get her out of my mind.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her—standing in that emerald green dress, the fabric hugging her body like it was made for her. I saw the way her lips trembled after our kiss, the fire in her eyes when she stood up to me, the way her voice cracked when she confessed her fears. I hadn’t planned for any of this.She was supposed to be a means to an end—a strategic pawn in a revenge game I had spent years crafting. But now, she has become something entirely different. She was a storm that ripped through the walls I had spent so long building, and I was starting to realize that I didn’t want to put them back up.I had planned to hurt Hector Woods. I didn’t expect to fall for the woman he had tried to break.The thoughts were too loud in my head. I needed to quiet them, even if just for a night. So I texted Jameson, my best friend.The bar we used to hit back in the day was dimly lit and smelled of bourbon and old wood. The kind of place
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